Bičák J., Ledvinka T. (eds.) General Relativity, Cosmology and Astrophysics: Perspectives 100 years after Einstein's stay in Prague

Springer, 2014. - 535 pp.
The articles included in this Volume represent a broad and highly qualified view on the present state of general relativity, quantum gravity, and their cosmological and astrophysical implications. As such, it may serve as a valuable source of knowledge and inspiration for experts in these fields, as well as an advanced source of information for young researchers.
The occasion to gather together so many leading experts in the field was to celebrate the centenary of Einstein's stay in Prague in 1911-1912. It was in fact during his stay in Prague that Einstein started in earnest to develop his ideas about general relativity that fully developed in his paper in 1915.
Approaching soon the centenary of his famous paper, this volume offers a precious overview of the path done by the scientific community in this intriguing and vibrant field in the last century, defining the challenges of the next 100 years.Gravity and Prague
Kepler and Mach’s Principle (by Julian Barbour).
Einstein in Prague: Relativity Then and Now (by Jiri Bicak).
Classical General Relativity
Observers, Observables and Measurements in General Relativity (by Donato Bini).
Some Links Between General Relativity and Other Parts of Physics (by Gary W. Gibbons).
The General Relativistic Two Body Problem and the Effective One Body Formalism (by Thibault Damour).
Gravitational Self-Force: Orbital Mechanics Beyond Geodesic Motion (by Leor Barack).
Hamiltonian Formalism for Spinning Black Holes in General Relativity (by Gerhard Schafer).
Stability of Marginally Outer Trapped Surfaces and Geometric Inequalities (by Marc Mars).
Stationary Black-Hole Binaries: A Non-existence Proof (by Gernot Neugebauer and Jorg Hennig).
Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes (by Robert M. Wald).
Instability of Anti-de Sitter Spacetime (by Piotr Bizon and Andrzej Rostworowski).
Higher-Dimensional Black Holes (by Harvey S. Reall).
Black Holes, Hidden Symmetry and Complete Integrability: Brief Review (by Valeri P. Frolov).
Cosmology and Quantum Gravity
Cosmological Models and Stability (by Lars Andersson).
Inflation and Birth of Cosmological Perturbations (by Misao Sasaki).
Loop Quantum Gravity and the Planck Regime of Cosmology (by Abhay Ashtekar).
The Inflationary Origin of the Seeds of Cosmic Structure: Quantum Theory and the Need for Novel Physics (by Daniel Sudarsky).
Quantum Gravity: The View From Particle Physics (by Hermann Nicolai).
Numerical Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
Three Little Pieces for Computer and Relativity (by Luciano Rezzolla).
Instabilities of Relativistic Stars (by John L. Friedman and Nikolaos Stergioulas).
Gravity Talks: Observing the Universe with Gravitational Waves (by Bernard F. Schutz).
LISA in 2012 and Beyond: 20 Years After the First Proposal (by Gerhard Heinzel and Karsten Danzmann).
Einstein’s Gravity as Seen by a Cosmic Lighthouse Keeper (by Michael Kramer).
The Astrophysical Signatures of Black Holes: The Horizon, The ISCO, The Ergosphere and The Light Circle (by Marek A. Abramowicz).
Energy Extraction from Spinning Black Holes Via Relativistic Jets (by Ramesh Narayan, Jeffrey E. McClintock and Alexander Tchekhovskoy).